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Community Quilts

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Thank you to everyone who showed up for how community quilt workshop. The single quilt pictured has already been sent off to Child Find Canada to be raffled off. We have quilts we will show at the meeting that will be distributed to the community immediately after.

There is an abundance of quilt kits ,lots of easy baby panels to practice your machine quilting. I hope that we can match the number of quilts we had last year . Please take a kit if you are able. Anita Jones-Gould Thank you to everyone who showed up for how community quilt workshop. The single quilt pictured has already been sent off to Child Find Canada to be raffled off. We have quilts we will show at the meeting that will be distributed to the community immediately after.

Take a kit if you are able.

Anita Jones-Gould

2016 Raffle Quilts

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At the March meeting, we will commence to sell books of Raffle tickets to Guild members, to buy, for advance sales to your family and friends.

In 2014, advance sales of Raffle tickets, by all the members was excellent and it would be great to have the same experience for 2016!

Tickets will be sold in books of 15 tickets, at a cost of $25.00.  The ticket price is 3 tickets for $5.00.  So that means you only have to sell your book of 15 tickets to 5 individuals (3 tickets for $5.00) and your book is complete!

As done in previous years, the member buys the book of tickets up front for $25.00, sells the tickets (now this money is yours) and returns the stubs for the draw.  We will keep track of the members name and the ticket books.

Please return your completed book of stubs to the Raffle Quilt Committee at our monthly meetings.  Please ensure all stubs are returned to the Raffle Quilt Committee for the draw, by the end of show to ensure all tickets are entered into the draw on June 11.

During March, April, May and June, the Raffle Quilt Committee is planning visits to various Quilt Guilds and the Lion’s Gate Hospital to sell Raffle tickets and promote our show.  We are looking for some volunteers to assist us.  Please sign up at the Raffle Quilt table at our monthly meetings.

Remember, all proceeds from the sale of the Raffle tickets goes to our Community Quilts Program.

So remember to bring either some cash or personal cheque to purchase your raffle tickets!!  Thanking you in advance.

The Raffle Quilt Committee
Becky West, Norine McCaffery, Betty Clarke, Suzanne Patchell

Library

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Hi all,

March will be my first meeting as Librarian, and I’m looking forward to it!

There are no new books in the library this month, because I’ve been learning the ropes. There will be new books next month! I want to thank Sonia Milanez for her encouragement, training and words of wisdom. She was a great librarian and teacher!

I’m going to have a quick questionnaire for you at the meeting. I would like to get an idea of what types of books members like the most and if they feel there are any gaps in our collection. Are there any books you’d like to see in the library? Are there any topics related to quilting that we should cover? Please think about these questions and bring your input to the meeting.

Please keep sending your suggestions to librarian@lionsgatequilters.com.

In the meantime, you can browse our library listings here: https://lionsgatequiltersguild.com/library/.  If you would like to reserve a book, please let me know at the above email.

Don’t forget to bring back your overdue books! And remember, there is a $1 fine per book per month. All fines collected go into the budget to buy new books – that should take the sting out of the fine!

Thank you,
Paula Bohan, LGQG Librarian

Quilt Show

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We’re in countdown mode, just 2 1/3 months to our show!

Last chance for registration – the March meeting is your final chance to register a quilt for the 2016 show. Photos are available at the meeting for a small fee.  Rules and regulations and the registration form can be found on the guild website.  I expect the registration team will be busy at this meeting so please bring your patience along with your forms.

When asked if she had registered a quilt for the show, a member recently responded “oh I don’t make anything good enough to be in a show”.  Please, if that is your belief let me say that nothing could be farther from the truth. Our show is a showcase for the work of ALL of our members. While we do hope that you will enter your very best work, it is just that YOUR very best work and is something to be proud of. You never know who might be inspired to give quilting a try when they view your quilt so please don’t hide your light under a bushel bring it out and show it off!

Have you renewed your membership? – the deadline for renewal is March 31st.  In quilt show years there is an increase of $20 in the membership fee. This goes directly to funding the quilt show giving us the funds to get started. For your $20 you receive 4 – $7 tickets, a saving of $8. Give them to friends, family, co-workers etc. If you volunteer at the show you do not need a ticket. If you don’t then you will need one of your tickets for entry.

Have you completed your volunteer forms? –  last chance before Vicky starts calling. Remember there are really great volunteer prizes. For every two hour shift you complete one entry goes in the draw.

Boutique items – I hope you are busy creating for our boutique – when you aren’t working on your show quilts that is!

Challenge Quilt – I’ve been hearing lots of chatter about these little quilts and can’t wait to see what you have created!

New instructions for hanging sleeves – If your quilt is larger than 48” wide you need to add a 4” sleeve. If your quilt is 48” or less please use a 2” sleeve.

Notes:  Dowels will be available on a first come first served basis at the April meeting. We will also be available at that meeting only to assist with cutting dowels to length and adding the screw eyes.

More information on attaching the dowel to your quilt will be included in the April newsletter and repeated in the May newsletter.

Keep working on those beautiful quilts!

Dianne
Quilt Show Coordinator

February Program Report

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Our February meeting featured Cathy Miller, the singing quilter, and her husband John Bunge. Toe tapping ensued. In addition to the fun and very lively music, Cathy brought a selection of her quilts, many done on the road while travelling to their singing engagements, including one aptly named ‘Insanity’, made of quarter-inch hexagons. God help me, but I just had to count the stitches. Between eight and ten per edge. Ouch. Taking the stage with her as a memory prompt to the words of one song was the ‘Star and Plume Quilt’, the names of the 48 blocks telling the oft-violent story of Sunbonnet Sue and her intruder turned suitor. The sampler quilt proved so popular that Cathy re-drafted it as a block-of-the-month.

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Laurel Hickey
Program Coordinator

From Your President

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Good news! As of Feb 9th, we have volunteers who have put their name forward for each of the six vacant Executive positions. If you have been considering putting your name forward, please do so. We will welcome additional nominations from the floor at the AGM. Some of you might like to act in an assistant capacity to support the Executive. All the Executive positions are for a two-year term, and members are expected to attend monthly Executive meetings held on the first Tuesday after our Guild meeting.

Please take time to review the guild proposed budget and the community quilts proposed budget (and financial statements for the year end) in an email earlier this month. Both budgets will be voted on at the AGM. We will also vote on the proposed changes to the constitution, which was also included in the email.

Our wonderful January speaker, Anita Jamieson, and some of the materials she brought to show us.
Our wonderful January speaker, Anita Jamieson, and some of the materials she brought to show us.

Our February program is exciting, and will be an auditory and visual experience. Cathy Miller and her husband John are coming with a program of songs, stories and quilts that they have shared at over 700 quilting events worldwide. To ensure we allow enough time for the program, we will not be having a show and tell this month.

The next two months are going to be very busy both before and after the meetings and at the breaks. We have ongoing registrations, quilt show sign-ups, and quilt show volunteer submissions. We also have the 2016 Quilt Challenge to capture your representation of a book. At the next meeting, you can take advantage of a photography service to capture your show quilt entries. All quilts must be registered by March 31st.

So keep those sewing machines running and humming…. June is coming up quickly.

Bena Luxton,
President